Esk had been sitting in the dusty gloom, trying to do even some very simple magic, when she heard the door open and boots clump across the floor.

Dank air wafted out of its dark recesses, and as Zaphod shone a torch into it, little was visible in the dusty gloom.

In the dusty gloom he saw the outline of the inner door, through which lay.... 'Bad place.'

Pikel hopped to his guard, and Ivan held his torch far out in front, peering into the dusty gloom.

In the dusty gloom they looked like lighted win-dows in a train-car.

Then the beams of battle lanterns pierced the dusty gloom.

The hot wind ruffled Richard's hair as he gazed out across wasteland obscured by the dusty predawn gloom.

To their right, a slope of rough stones, loose and precariously balanced, rose high into the dusty gloom.

His hand would rake across the sill, pushing at the wooden board until it fell back with a clatter into the dusty gloom of the house.

Back in the central nave last week, the rain stopped and shafts of sunlight from high windows pierced the dusty gloom.